How bad are things, for Obama, after that press conference on Friday? Well, when Buzzfeed turns against you, it is as bad as it can get.

As of yesterday,  it can be said that the Obama administration has lost the national press corps,  at least as regards to its refusal to ask the hard questions and pursue the difficult stories. 

The Friday press conference,  postponed twice before its late start (three hours late) was to have been about healthcare,  Obama using the presser as a “kick-off” opportunity for a new Mother’s Day Weekend  push to resurrect public opinion favoring ObamaCare.  As it turns out,  there was only one question dealing with healthcare in the hour long and contentious ordeal. 

Understand that before the press conference,  the Administration had to shift gears because of a newly released ABC story that exposed Administration efforts at covering up the fact that the Libyan massacre of our diplomatic corps was the fault of a revived al Qaeda,  the same al Qaeda Obama had claimed “was decimated and on the run,”  during the election cycle. 

To make matters worse,  in a desperate effort at regaining control of the WH press corps,  the press conference was postponed to allow for a secret meeting in which only a few of the press corps was invited.  Can anyone say,  “Backfired ?”

Anyway,  as a result of all this,  the Left leaning, Buzzfeed,  carried this enlightening, summary review of what happened,  from the point of view of another WH press secretary’s perspective,  namely Ari  Fleischer,  GW Bush’s press secretary. 

Buzzfeed:  “At around the time many reporters were preparing to go to the daily briefing with White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, Politico reported that the White House had held a special background briefing on Benghazi for a select group of reporters just a few minutes earlier. Fleischer, onetime press secretary for George W. Bush and an Obama White House critic, told BuzzFeed that Obama’s communications shop should have realized that such a decision would provoke the wrath of the reporters who weren’t invited — thus drawing more attention to the Benghazi controversy the administration is trying to downplay.

“The [daily televised] briefing is a red-hot environment, and there is something to be said for calming the environment and doing it in a different session,” he said. “But the timing is important. The timing of doing it right before the briefing is the equivalent of raising a red cape in front of a bunch of bulls.”

The White House insisted it didn’t do anything out of the ordinary with the background briefing, a commonplace occurrence Fleischer said he made use of often when he was press secretary. On Twitter, Fleischer joined the throngs of Republicans attacking the White House Friday. He’s not a neutral observer when it comes to Obama administration policy. But anyone who remembers the Bush years will attest that Fleischer knows a thing or two about press strategy. And strategically, he said, Obama’s team could have done a much better job handling the news of the day. Holding the background briefing before the on-the-record briefing was a mistake, he said.

“It’s one thing if you hold the [daily] briefing, it doesn’t go well, and you bring reporters together for a background briefing late in the evening or later that afternoon to work twice as hard,” he said. “But to do this right before the briefing is throwing gasoline on a fire.”  

The real disaster, in all this for the Administration,  is that millions of  American's will learn of the Benghazi cover-up, now that the national media is finally on board with the story.  

Obama's political cashe is the real victim in all this,  not to mention the political future of Hillary Clinton.  It is her State Department that is under fire,  in this case as well as her own brand of feckless "leadership."    

Keep in mind,  there is a very important midterm election coming our way in 2014.  If this story remains at the center of the national news cycle,  Democrats up for re-election will have no choice but to abandon Obama's radicalized agenda, in order to save their own political necks.  If Obama cannot win back the House,  and,  even worse,  if he loses the Senate,  he will not only be a lame duck,  but simply a duck,  indeed !!  

I say,  "Couldn't happen to a nicer guy."